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' G. W. RYAN.

MOUNTING FOR JEWELRY.

No. 363,915. Patented May 31,1887.

WITNESSES: IIVVEIVTOR N. FEYERS, PholoLflIwgnphur. Wilmington, D. (L

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GEORGE w. RYAN, oE'EAsroEANoE, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO ABRAM H. RYAN, or SAME PLACE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 363,915, dated May'3L, 1887.

Application filed October l8,'l .t6 Serial No v 916.474. (No model.)

In previous constructions it has been 'com- 1 mon to set the stone in a box and by perforating the stone to employ screws toclamp an external initial letter and the stone jointly into the box. In such construction, where the initial letter and the stone are secured to the box by a commonfastening, the loosening of the latter would result in the loss of both.

In my invention the stone is secured so rigidly in the settingthat its loosening is practically impossible, and the initial letter is then secured directly to it, without any" onnection to the mounting or the frame in which the stone is set.

The essential part of my invention, by which I'secure the stone so rigidly in the mounting, consists in an independent bezel secured upon the inner side of the jewel-plate and adapted to be burnished over the-entire edge of the stone. I

The invention is shown herein applied to a. 5 locket having a stone set in each of its opposite sides.

' Figure l is a view of one side of the locket. Fig. -2 is a longitudinal section across the middle of the same. 40 jewel-plate with the bezel attached, ready for setting the stone. Fig. 4 is an inside view of the same plate and bezel, and Fig. 5 is an inside view of the plate with'the stone in place and the bezel burnished down around its en- 5 tire margin.

b, to admit the stone 1;, the latter being beveled outwardly, so that when applied to th aperture b it cannot escape outward.

Upon the inner side of the plate a, at a small distance from the aperture 12, thebezel e is se- Fig. 3is an edge view of the cured, and consists in a strip or frame of sheet metal extended-all around the aperture band soldered by one edge to the plate a.

In Fig. 2 the bezel is shown in one half of 'thelooket projected beyond the inner surface of the stone,as it appears before burnishing down, while the bezel in the other side of the locket is represented as bent down over the edge of the stone,- then operating, as shown in' Fig. 5, to clamp the entire margin ofthe stone to the plate a with such firmness that no pressure to which it would be subjected upon the outer side when in use would be able to loosen it.

Holes d are provided in the stone to'seeure the initialf therein, the latter being formed with integral studs 9. adapted to passth rough the stone, and f urnishcd .u pon their inner ends with-nuts o. 0

Recesses 0, as shown .in Fig. 5 and in one of the stones in Fig. 2, may be formed in the inner side of the stoneto sink the nuts in flush with the surface of the stone, but Ipr'efer to conceal the inner side of the stone and the burnished edge of the bezel with a coverflz, clamped over the same by thenuts 0, as shown upon one of the stones in Fig.3 2. By this device the construction of the bezel is entirely concealed and the inner surface of they stone '80 and the. bezel itself are equally covered, so that they are not exposed to View whenthe locket is opened.

The bezel e is just as cheap to make as the inferior devices (like cars and cross-bars) heretofore applied to the inner sideof the plate a-to retain the stone in place, while its strength and efficiency are very much greater.

, It' will be noticed that the loosening of the nuts 0, while it might result in the loss of the c initial letter f, would not effect in any way the fastening of the stone in the mounting, and the corners and edges of the latter are thus prevented from the damage which often results when the stone is pressed uponwhen loosened.

The essential feature of my invention is the securing of the stone to the plate a by the bezel e and the fastening of the initial letter to the stone without any connection of the letter too with the said plate.

It is obvious that the plate it, when provided with my improvements, may be applied to the aperture l) and bezel e, and the beveled other constructions than the double locket stone 0, rigidly secured therein by the bezel,

shown herein; and that in whatever device'it may be used the initial letter may be removed a and replaced with a different one without any displacement of the stone or risk of its falling out during such interchange and receiving unnecessary injury.

Having thus set forth my invention, what I claim herein is- 1. Theimprovedmounting or setting for precious'stones, consisting in the plate a, having the aperture 1) for the insertion of the stone therein from the innerside, and provided vwith the bezel 6, consisting in a strip of metal socured to the platea atright angles to the same around theinner margin of the aperture, and adapted to be burnished over the inner edges of the stone parallel with the plate, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination, with the plate a,having burnished around its entire margin, as described, of the initial letter f, secured exclusively to the stone by the studs 9 and nuts 0, substantially as shown and described.

3. The combination, with the plate a, haw

ing the apertures b, and the beveled stone 0, inserted therein from the inner side, of the bezel e, burnished over the entire edge of the stone, and the plate 71, secured over the bezel to conceal the same, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE \V. RYAN.

\Vitnesscs:

HENRY J. MILLER, HENRY J. THE'BERATII. 

